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showed her support for president obama, obama showed his faith in clinton. >> i have no doubt that hillary clinton is the right person to lead our state department and to work with me in tackling this ambitious foreign policy agenda. >> what was hillary clinton's initial reaction when you told her, look, they're actually considering you as a possibility for secretary of state? >> she didn't believe it. >> reporter: he is one of clinton's closest aides. >> i e-mailed her, i think it was the friday after election day after hearing it from two reporters. and i'm pretty sure her reply was something along the lines of, not for a million reasons. >> if she was hesitant, why not just say no? >> i think she did or came awfully close. i think the president was very persuasive. >> we're delighted to welcome senator clinton, secretary of state designate -- >> clinton was quickly confirmed. but how would she get along with the man who defeated her campaign? could she work for him? >> everyone expected, including myself, that there would be a lot of division, a lot of secretary clinton going behind the
showed her support for president obama, obama showed his faith in clinton. >> i have no doubt that hillary clinton is the right person to lead our state department and to work with me in tackling this ambitious foreign policy agenda. >> what was hillary clinton's initial reaction when you told her, look, they're actually considering you as a possibility for secretary of state? >> she didn't believe it. >> reporter: he is one of clinton's closest aides. >> i...
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there will be another shift between obama and clinton when she starts to run for president. so this is just the appropriate way to handle it. it feels very good as a democrat to see them together. >> what about joe though, morris? what about joe? what if he decides to get into the race in 2016? >> i think they'll find something else to do in 2016. >> all right. well susan, what do you think? and again, he said well duh kind of. this has to do with 2016. you see it that way as well? >> i do. just to build on what felicia said, i also see one other thing you showed in that clip, they were opponents. they ran a very hard, tough campaign and they were able to come together. i think in a way it's the president saying, i can work with people who i've run against and kind of sending a shot to republicans. we have to be able to work together. >> we're going to turn to gaming the system. felicia talking about this idea now. in several states it's come up. these are states for the most part the president won. blue states but have republican legislatures. trying to change the way we ap
there will be another shift between obama and clinton when she starts to run for president. so this is just the appropriate way to handle it. it feels very good as a democrat to see them together. >> what about joe though, morris? what about joe? what if he decides to get into the race in 2016? >> i think they'll find something else to do in 2016. >> all right. well susan, what do you think? and again, he said well duh kind of. this has to do with 2016. you see it that way as...
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president obama meanwhile and outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton have given their first ever joint television interview. it airs tomorrow night on "60 minutes." the president in that interview thanked secretary clinton for her hard work. >> i think hillary will go down as one of the finest secretaries of state we've had. it has been a great collaboration over the last four years. i'm going to miss her. >> a few years ago it would have been seen as improbable because we had that very long, hard, primary campaign. i worked very hard, but i lost and president obama asked me to be secretary of state, and i said yes, and why did he ask me and why did i say yes? because we both love our country. >> congressman paul ryan today is spelling out what he learned from the election, he speak out as the vice presidential nominee saying moving forward the gop needs to lay out its vision with even more specifics and with a broader appeal. >>> meanwhile, the nation's capital today there was a powerful unprecedented show of public sentiment in gun control. the million mom march brought togethe
president obama meanwhile and outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton have given their first ever joint television interview. it airs tomorrow night on "60 minutes." the president in that interview thanked secretary clinton for her hard work. >> i think hillary will go down as one of the finest secretaries of state we've had. it has been a great collaboration over the last four years. i'm going to miss her. >> a few years ago it would have been seen as improbable...
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do you see this as a setback for president obama? >> the white house doesn't seem particularly worried about it. they'll let the process ride it out and see what other cases -- what other courts do with similar cases and seek supreme court review. but i think you saw white house press secretary jay carney say this is unprecedented. don't really agree with this. other presidents have done this. they'll take the stance going forward. >> okay. amie parnes, ed o'keefe. thank you. >>> and reince priebus was reeekted as head of the rnrnc. >> we must compete in every state, in every region, building relationships with community we haven't before. at the rnc, we are dropping the red and blue state analysis. we must be a party concerned about every american in every neighborhood. >> mitt romney in washington, d.c. this weekend. he and his wife, ann, honored by the marriott corporation on saturday. his staff did not allow media after that event. he rejoined marriott's board of directors after the election. and tonight he will attend the alfalf
do you see this as a setback for president obama? >> the white house doesn't seem particularly worried about it. they'll let the process ride it out and see what other cases -- what other courts do with similar cases and seek supreme court review. but i think you saw white house press secretary jay carney say this is unprecedented. don't really agree with this. other presidents have done this. they'll take the stance going forward. >> okay. amie parnes, ed o'keefe. thank you....
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guest: those are interesting questions, and i wish i had the time to examine how obama and clinton did, but i do not have data to very interesting question. host: somebody brought up the pay, and the median pay is between $30,000 and 35 thousand dollars, and according to an article you wrote last year, senators make $174,000. is the median pay, once the young people get here to washington and see how expensive it is to live in this town, is that one of the reasons why there seems to be a revolving door? guest: people do it for the right reasons out of patriotism , you can only do it for so long. when you want to get married and have kids, you simply cannot do it. the median legislative counsel in the house makes $56,000, and they are lawyers with law school loans to pay off, and 56,000 dollars is actually less than the median 2007, and that is in hard dollars not taking into account inflation. one week talk about cutting members of congress pay, we will cut their office budgets, and those are largely personal costs. we try to make this imbalanced standard we are conscious about budget
guest: those are interesting questions, and i wish i had the time to examine how obama and clinton did, but i do not have data to very interesting question. host: somebody brought up the pay, and the median pay is between $30,000 and 35 thousand dollars, and according to an article you wrote last year, senators make $174,000. is the median pay, once the young people get here to washington and see how expensive it is to live in this town, is that one of the reasons why there seems to be a...
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one of the reasons senator obama won the nomination was because of proportional delegation. when he lost nevada to senator hillary clinton, he won more delegates because he won the congressional districts. democrats complain about it, but they also have proportional delegation in their own party. >> to me, if there was a way to just do it, forget congressional districts. because everybody cheats. when the other guy is drawing the line, you say he's cheating. everybody cheats. but if you just did popular vote percent and did proportional allocation as he's talking about, wouldn't that be more fair? i don't think it's fair right now, 51% of the vote in the state goes to one guy, he gets 100% of the electoral college votes. it doesn't add up. >> that's a very interesting idea. to the point you raised before, when you're talking about in california, california is a democratic state. but there are a lot of republicans in that democratic state. and you don't have republican presidential candidates trying to win their votes. so if you said that if republicans are -- have 40% of the
one of the reasons senator obama won the nomination was because of proportional delegation. when he lost nevada to senator hillary clinton, he won more delegates because he won the congressional districts. democrats complain about it, but they also have proportional delegation in their own party. >> to me, if there was a way to just do it, forget congressional districts. because everybody cheats. when the other guy is drawing the line, you say he's cheating. everybody cheats. but if you...
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jimmy carter, bill clinton, barack obama. they were all told, you cannot win. how many times was jimmy carter told, you cannot win? how many times was barack obama told you cannot win? they all won. two of them twice. they won with people you had never heard of before. we do not have anything like that in the republican party. we throw good money after bad. dole and mccain and romney use the same people. staff infection. it will not matter who you put in front of them if you have the same people pulling the same strings. [applause] >> how do we make a compelling argument? from a conservative point of view, how can you even make the compelling argument to republicans? it is not some kind of illness they do not want to be infected by. >> they always say, it is always darkest right before it is completely black. it's always darkest right before the lights come on. it is not the american public got into everything that is liberal. i hope the lights come on in the next couple of years. they did not buy into the change of another person. as much as that is frustratin
jimmy carter, bill clinton, barack obama. they were all told, you cannot win. how many times was jimmy carter told, you cannot win? how many times was barack obama told you cannot win? they all won. two of them twice. they won with people you had never heard of before. we do not have anything like that in the republican party. we throw good money after bad. dole and mccain and romney use the same people. staff infection. it will not matter who you put in front of them if you have the same...